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November 2015

Nov 30, 2015 743 notes
#life is strange #nathan prescott #victoria chase #chasescott #lis #my art #PFW

khxff:

i feel bad my interests are all over the place like idk what content u followed me for originally but it probably wasnt this

Nov 29, 2015 345,231 notes
#thanks for sticking around everyone lmao
Nov 29, 2015 3 notes
#i'M SCREAMING #this is single handily #crashing everything #i'm deleting things and transferring files rn in hopes of having some space #so my computer doesn't choke and die on this file #this picture is some serious bad luck

Man… it’s been quiet an interesting & emotionally draining week aahhg

Nov 29, 2015
#me talking #staying up late tonight #gonna post art later

Livestreaming!! 

Nov 23, 2015 5 notes

Thinking about doing a livestream soon! In maybe an hour [5:30 EST]
I need to finish this Chasescott picture & thought maybe livestreaming it would be interesting? 

Nov 22, 2015 11 notes
#me talking

i’m fond of the idea that Nathan & Victoria are a bit more than friends and all that. But, I also love the idea that they’re just really great friends, and they feel like their friendship is solely based on them and not their money– & they’re both use to fake friends that use them so they constantly test each other & it just ends up bringing them closer.
Now it’s just them secretly being the weirdest people alive in private to see how far they can go with eachother & I resonate with joy at the thought of it

Nov 22, 2015 9 notes
#lis #chasescott #mem
Nov 22, 2015 128 notes
#life is strange #work in progress #chasescott #victoria chase #nathan prescott

nothing like going through a sugar rush while also wanting to go to beeeeeeaaaaaaAAAGGGHGD 

Nov 22, 2015 1 note
#end me #home made hot chocolate #more like home made mistakes #why
Nov 21, 2015 3 notes
#mem #doodles
Nov 16, 2015 5 notes
#artist on tumblr #Illustration #octopus #food #my art
Nov 14, 2015 2 notes
#This Time Official #My art #fanart for frans #illustrations #artist on tumblr #PFW

I found the Octopus hoodie! (it’s grey instead of white but w/e)

it’s $115 but deer god then I remembered the Canadian $$$ is shit rn so it’s actually 150 aaaaaAAAAH

Nov 13, 2015 4 notes
#me talking #aaaahhh

Ah jeez I can’t believe I have 300+ rn?

Thanks for following! I hope you stick around!

Nov 12, 2015 2 notes
#appreciation #me talking #ahhh
Nov 11, 2015 187 notes
#Undertale #undyne #Frisk #Undertail #my art
Nov 10, 2015 2 notes
#This Time Official #This Time #my art #fanart #letsplay
Nov 9, 2015 2 notes
#personal #1 year #lvl 1 #my art

Hey! Whatcha watchin?

Me?

I ' ᗰ  ᒍ ᑌ ᔕ T ᗩ  T ᐯ !
Nov 8, 2015 30 notes
#undertale #undertail #spoilers #HEAVY Spoilers #cca smart as you ad #this is it
Nov 7, 2015 5 notes
#undertale #ending #spoilers #??
Nov 6, 2015 45 notes
#life is strange #polarized #max caulfield #lis #i laughed when this happened #like #everyone around you is dying and you take a picture of this flaming whale #my art

God I’m loving all these unused audio clips from life is strange that are rolling around 

Nov 6, 2015 6 notes
#the voice acting in that game was so good #life is strange

peppermintmonster:

Friendly reminder to all working artists or (especially) aspiring artists.

If a client says they can’t afford to pay you but you’ll get good exposure, one of two things is happening:

1. They are lying. They can afford to pay you, but they are choosing not to. They will pay the printer to print the books, they will pay the mail service to deliver them, and you’d better believe they’re going to pay themselves for sending you an email explaining that they can’t afford to pay you. They think you are a sucker, and if you take the job you’ll be telling them they are right.

2. They are not lying. They have zero budget, no audience and no real distribution system. They’ll still be paying the printer and mail service because people who work in those professions don’t work for free just because someone promises them a recommendation. But they aren’t paying themselves, they’re running on an incredibly small margin, and there’s a good chance they won’t exist as a corporate entity in a few years. Publishing your work with them will give you less exposure than putting it on tumblr or Instagram for free would. It will never lead to a paying job. 

If a client starts ranting about the “short-sightedness” of artists, or otherwise complains about artists in general in their opening offer to you, run. Run as fast as you would run if a blind date spent the whole of dinner ranting about how horrible your entire gender is. Yes, there are doubtlessly clients who’ve been screwed over by artists in the past, but the ones who complain about artists in general will not respect you, they will not treat you well. 

Working for free does not prove that you are passionate about something. It proves that you do not need to be paid for your work. How many doctors went into medicine because they are passionate about saving lives? Do you think any of them are asked to perform heart surgery for free?

No one will ever pay $50 for something if they can get something similar for $5. When you charge next to nothing for art that you’ve worked for hours on, art that required years of training to create, you are telling your client that it is worth next to nothing. They will remember that the next time they want to hire an artist.

People who are looking to exploit artists know that artists are hard on themselves. They know that most artists don’t think their work is good enough to charge top dollar. They know that artists have been told from the first day they started taking their art seriously as a career that they’ll never make any money off it, that it’s not a real job, that it has no value to society. They know how to push artists’ insecurities about their profession in order to convince them that that demanding fair compensation is unrealistic and uncooperative.

If you’re just desperate for a job in the arts, any job in the arts, give yourself a job. Start a webcomic, or give yourself illustration assignments that you post on social media regularly, create work for a gallery show even if you don’t have one yet, or make a book. Give yourself a job. If you’re going to work for free, you may as well be working for yourself, setting your own hours and following your own interests. Having original art with original characters and ideas in your portfolio, and making sure your art is visible online will get the attention of publishers who are actually looking to hire people for good jobs. Drawing a shitty comic for a defunct publisher based on someone else’s shitty ideas will not.

Protect yourself, because no one else will. Protect yourself, because no one else will. There are people lining up around the block to exploit you. Protect yourself because no one else will.

Nov 5, 2015 65,333 notes
#artist stuff #delete later #important

*rolls around on sketch book in attempts to make something worth looking at*

Nov 4, 2015 1 note
#i've been drawing circles for days #1 yr anniversary #coming up #and i'm screaming #sorry for lack of activity
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